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    The Missing Issues in the Presidential Campaign

    No campaign has ever touched on all the important issues, but who decides what's worth discussing and when?

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    No campaign has ever touched on all the important issues, but who decides what's worth discussing and when? For the first time since the election of 1988, the issue of climate change – a subject even the Pentagon says could be crucial to America's future -- was not raised in any of this year's presidential or vice presidential debates Both presidential candidates are being accused of "climate silence." Drug wars, just across the Mexican border, have killed 60,000 people, twice the number in Syria's civil war. What about the Eurozone and gun control? Do the media provide all the ideas? Are the candidates trapped by partisan polarization? We hear a range of opinions.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Caitlin Shamberg

      KCRW

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      John Fialka

      ClimateWire

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      Shanto Iyengar

      Stanford University

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      Greg Mitchell

      The Nation

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    The Missing Issues in the Presidential Campaign
    1. 0:00Syrian Army Agrees to Temporary Truce, but How Long Will It Last?
    2. 7:29The Missing Issues in the Presidential CampaignYou’re reading this
    3. 43:403D Printing and DIY Guns
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